If Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose has a right to decide who uses his antlers however much it inconveniences the Woodland creatures, do capitalists have a right to do what they like with factories?

No essay today, sorry! I was going to write about something I have reason to think will be out very soon, but didn’t come out quite in time to write about it for this week’s Substack.

Meanwhile, though, here’s the recording for the twenty-fourth session of our Substack philosophy class for paid subscribers. We’re finally done with Ch. 8! We should be able to knock out Chs. 9 and 10 in one Tuesday each in the next two weeks, then we’ll probably have to skip a week when I’m back in Michigan, and then we can move on to reading G.A. Cohen’s response-book Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality. Oh, and remember that this and all the previous class recordings so far can be found here.

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